sone
/soʊn/noun
sone is spelled S-O-N-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sone means “a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sone is sones.
How many letters and syllables are in sone?
| Letters | 4: S-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 48,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sone?
Sone appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sone?
- US /soʊn/
- UK /səʊn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-Sone.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sone
Sounds like: Saône, sown (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: son.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sone?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sone from its last stressed vowel (/oʊn/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ones, nose.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sone
- sones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
- 2
obsoleteObsolete spelling of son.
noun
- 1
A fan of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.
Their six-track EP, 'Mr.Mr' comes packed with electro and R&B infused songs that SONEs (as SNSD Girls' Generation fans are lovingly called) can dance and sing along to.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of Sone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sone come from?
From Latin sonus (“sound”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).